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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
For us, you see, the church is not just another institution. It's a failing but never quite failed attempt, by limited people, to perpetuate the unlimited generosity of God in the world . . . it exists, like Christ, in order to be a channel by which mending enters the world; a mending which, thank God, does not depend on the success of human virtue, individual or collective, but on what breathes and shines through us if we let it.
Francis Spufford, Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense
...what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are--even if we tell it only to ourselves--because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier that way to see where we have been in our lives and where we are going. It also makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets
. . . constantly we are startled that God’s kingdom already is among us, its Messiah enthroned where we least expect. At our best, we want him enshrined; at our worst, we want him dead. Though elusive, Jesus will not collude with our delusions. He refuses to keep still on a holy hill. He won’t stay buried. Roving, relentless, Jesus persists in calling disciples into a Sabbath of which he is Lord, along a way he makes sacred though never safe.
"The Face is Familiar—I Just Can’t Place It" by C. Clifton Black in The Endings of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel
Meaning, Hope, and Repair
A few paragraphs from Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair by Anne Lamott:
"But what if the great secret insider-trading truth is that you don't ever get over the biggest losses in your life? Is that good news, bad news, or both?
The good news is that if you don't seal up your heart with caulking compound, and instead stay permeable, people stay alive inside you, and maybe outside you, too, forever.
This is also the bad news, not because your heart will continue to hurt forever, but because grief is so frowned upon, so hard for even intimate bystanders to witness, that you will think you must be crazy for not getting over it. You think it's best to keep this a secret, even if it cuts you off from certain aspects of life, like, say, the truth of your heart, and all that is real.
The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will ever get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to.
Pretending that things are nicely boxed up and put away robs us of great riches."
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. . . by letting love be the form through which perception happens, the grace of the world begins to appear. Things cease to be merely what we take them or want them to be. They begin to stand in the light of God as the graced and gifted beings that they are.
Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith
There have been times . . . when I thought I could cry forever. But I haven't done it . . . The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible . . . They can't because they don't. The light that shines in darkness and never goes out calls them on into life . . . into the world, into whatever the world will require.
Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
Christ is not reducible to being a victim. He is the high priest who offered himself so that the isolating, degrading, and death-wielding ways of the world could be overcome . . . Christ has made of himself the definitive offering that forever heals the breach and opens the lines of communication between God and the world . . . He turns all of us into altars for the receiving and giving again of the gifts of God.
Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith
The Christian . . . lives by the power of the joy that is laid bare in the event of the resurrection of Jesus. To be baptized 'into' Christ is to be given a lasting connection with joy."
Rowan Williams, Choose Life
Whoever begins to concern himself with theology also begins to concern himself from first to last with wonders.
Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology (via invisibleforeigner)
Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try to find something or someone it cannot cover. Grace is enough. He is enough. Jesus is enough . . . Abba's love cannot be comprehended. I'll say it again: Abba's love cannot be comprehended.
Brennan Manning, All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
The genius of the Gospel was that it included the problem inside the solution. The falling became the standing. The stumbling became the finding. The dying became the rising. The raft became the shore. The small self cannot see this very easily, because it doubts itself too much, is still too fragile, and is caught up in the tragedy of it all.
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody. By the second half of our lives, we are meant to see in wholes and no longer just in parts. Yet we get to the whole by falling down into the messy parts--so many times, in fact, that we long and thirst for the wholeness and fullness of all things, including ourselves.
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
Many depressed people are people who have never taken any risks, never moved outside their comfort zone, never faced necessary suffering, and so their unconscious knows that they have never lived--or loved!
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
I heard a man say once that Christians worship sorrow. That is by no means true. But we do believe there is a sacred mystery in it, it's fair to say that.
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton (via invisibleforeigner)
The reality of the new creation is that every moment of our history has now been opened to a future of healing and promise; but from moment to moment the possibility and the reality remain of struggle, uncertainty. The future is just that--the future: not something we can know and control. It is in God's hands, ultimately, and we have been given the confidence that God is the end of the story and that our history cannot just fall away into final, irredeemable chaos.
Rowan Williams, Tokens of Trust
